“Can I have my phone?” I asked quietly.
He’d have dropped me off and gone on his way before anyone could get to the suburban Omega Haven if I called now. I wasn’t planning on calling my family, anyway. Just West.
Guinn fished it from his pocket and passed it over.
I tapped the screen and unlocked it, going through my contacts.
I didn’t even have West’s number.Fuck. Only Mercer’s and Conrad’s. How was I supposed to contact him?
Trying not to cry was proving useless. Every emotion was turned up by ten. I went to my call log instead, scrolling down to find the last time Benjamin had been called.
Guinn hadn’t called him. At least not using my phone. The last outgoing call to that number was when I’d called Benjamin to try and find him.
Swiping back up to the top, I noticed a list of calls in red. Missed calls. So many from Emilia, some from Lavinia, but also plenty from a number I’d never seen before. They hadn’t left a message, but from how many times they’d called, they had something important to tell me.
Could it be West?
Tentatively, I tapped the number to call back.
It rang twice.
“Yeah?”
West’s voice washed over me like a soothing wave. I immediately started to sob, clutching the phone.
He’d tried to call me. He could come and save me from the hell of this lonely heat.
Chapter
Four
WEST
From that first hiccuping sob, I knew who was on the phone with me.
I hadn’t checked the number before answering. It could only be one of very few people. But I hadn’t expected it to be her after she’d been silent for so long.
“Little omega, are you OK?”
She sniffled, and I listened hard to the sounds on the other end of the line. There were faint traffic noises. Was she in a car? Where was she going, and what was the fastest way for me to get to her?
I wanted to bombard her with questions, but I waited for her to collect herself. Overwhelming her wouldn’t make her feel any better.
“I’m in heat; Benjamin found me and completed the bond and left me on the side of the road.” She blurted out everything in one breath.
“He didwhat?” I moved the phone away from my ear, hoping it made it less obvious that I was shouting.
The city was waking up, and I was only a few blocks from the hospital—the place where I’d been planning to start my search for my omega and packmates. I wasn’t the most approachable guy to begin with, but people were giving me an especially wide berth today.
Stepping off the sidewalk and into a small, empty park, I paced on the gravel walkway. “Tell me where you are. I’ll come get you right now.”
There was another sniffle, and the rev of an engine. “We’re here,” a male voice said from far too close to her.
“Who the fuck is that?”
Damn it, I was probably scaring her. I had to treat her delicately, like I’d treated Violet. No shouting or raising my voice, no sudden outbursts. I’d been bad at it when my sister had lived with us, and I was out of practice.
So I had to be even worse at it now.
